Assouan

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Assouan

Artist Francis Frith British, 1822-1898

Date1862-1863

DimensionsImage: 6 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (15.6 x 22.5 cm);
Sheet: 12 1/2 x 17 15/16 in. (31.8 x 44 cm)

MediumAlbumen print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1982.208

Not on View

Collections

Works on Paper

Exhibition HistoryTMA Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, & llustrated Books, Jan. 22, - June 24, 1983. Toledo Museum of Art, Travelers Through Ancient Lands, Sept. 10 - Feb. 6, 2011 (no cat.).

Toledo Museum of Art, The Mummies: From Egypt to Toledo, February 3- May 6, 2018.

Label TextBeautifully composed, with the full range of warm albumen tones intact, this photograph demonstrates the power and monumentality Francis Frith was able to achieve even in small images. Though it is meant to be a precise record of an actual site, the drama of the composition and light enhance the exotic and romantic content. Assouan reflects Frith’s own advice that the student of photography “has to aim at…not the production of a large number of good pictures, but if possible, of one that shall satisfy all the requirements of his judgment and taste.”